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Stone Fruit Gets the Summer Spotlight!

As sun-kissed berries yield to stone fruit in the annual summer harvest, peaches are coming in as sweet as pie. Summer time reminds me of plump peaches picked from a tree, rubbed down a sleeve to remove the fuzz, and biting into fruit that was so juicy, it oozed down your arm to your elbow. While we made cobbler all year long, peach cobbler was at its best with summer-picked peaches. Here’s my grandmother’s consistently good recipe:

I’ve been eating more fish these days and salmon’s at the top of my fish list, although I always worry about cooking it too dry. Lately, I’ve been baking it in moisture-resistant paper ("en papillote" in French), allowing the fish to steam in its own juices and locking in aroma and flavor.